Six months have passed since “Q”—the anonymous user behind the QAnon conspiracy theory—last posted online, though some followers continue to believe their so-called leader will return. A person ...

As the expected red wave failed to materialize in the midterms last week and former President Donald Trump baselessly claimed the election had been stolen (again), new Q drops landed. Usually new ...

Jim Watkins clearly doesn’t know how his own website works. The owner and operator of 8kun, the fringe message board that the anonymous leader of QAnon calls home, has, over the course of the last ...

In November 2017, a small-time YouTube video creator and two moderators of the 4chan website, one of the most extreme message boards on the internet, banded together and plucked out of obscurity an ...

Cryptic posts on 8kun ask ‘Shall we play a game once more?’ and ‘Are you ready to serve your country again?’ The leader of the QAnon conspiracy theory, which captivated a wave of Donald Trump ...

The insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 was predictable if you were following message boards on shadowy corners of the internet. "Yeah, I thought Jan. 6 was going to be really bad," Cullen ...